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About Me Member Varied Artist LionHeartAUMale/Australia Recent Activity Deviant for 3 Years
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Computer hassles - fixed. *whew*

Tue Jul 14, 2009, 8:56 PM
Well, the computer is back to normal (more or less). Thanks to those who offered advice - I did end up taking it to a techie, and several days (and $250) later, I have a working system once again.

I turned out that not only did it have a virus (possibly more than one), one of the memory sticks had gone bad. Getting the 512mb stick replaced with a shiny new 1GB one resolved the problem, and as a bonus I now have an extra half-gig of memory to play with.

Now I'm in the process of re-installing all of my apps, and restoring my files from backups. Speaking of backups, those USB thumb drives are a good investment - I picked up a 16GB model for $55, and it had room for pretty much everything I had on my computer (including emails - I'm something of a digital pack-rat), with space left over. I'll probably invest in a portable hard drive next - about $100 for a 250GB model.

  • Mood: Relief
  • Reading: The words what I've typed
  • Watching: The computer screen

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  • Current Residence: Campbelltown, South Australia
  • Interests: Webcomics, drawing, writing, others (too many to list)...
  • Favourite genre of music: Whatever sounds good to me...
  • Operating System: Windows XP (Home)
  • MP3 player of choice: Winamp
  • Tools of the Trade: Mech. pencil, Photoshop Elements 4.0, Wacom Graphire3

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:iconlostoverlord:
Sorry if i'm wrong. But i was looking in the google search engine for any Parkour associations in the Campbelltown area. And your page popped up saying that parkour was one of your hobbies. I was wondering could you please link me the Address for the association that you are currently with?

If you don't do parkour then I am sorry to be taking up your time. :)

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"Regardless of what happened, you did the best you could. I understand that now... you broke the rules for all our sakes - I'm proud of you now..." best Kakashi line ever...
:icontaigan:
:bow:
Thanks for your :+fav: of The Death of Bruce Wayne [link]
:glomp:

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:iconbrevityraccoon:
Thanks for the fave :)

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:icontillette:
Thanks for the fav hun. ^^
:icontaggz:
Thanks for the fave :D

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"I shouldn't even be moping here. This is a rug." - Janitor (Scrubs)
Parkour Club - [link] (check it out)
RP Inn - [link]
:iconrachel1987:
Thanks for the favorite!
:iconkum-el:
Heya. Thanks for the friendage!
:iconserendipityegs:
Hey Oz, quick question - in your journal post, when you said who you were tagging, you were able to put their icons/images in - how did you do that? Hope you can help! ^_^
:iconlionheartau:
Simple enough - just type : iconusername :, with the name of the person in place of "username" (and without the spaces).

(If you want a text link to them, just replace "icon" with "dev".)

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:iconserendipityegs:
So if I type dev it will do the icon and a link?

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